My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.

All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

They aren't making mirrors like they use to.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.

There is no limit to positive affirmations.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

If you're not prepared, it's not pressure you feel, it's fear.

David James is frustrated because he thinks us being bottom isn't helping his chances with England. I think it gives him more chance to show his ability.

German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales.

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.